Track Premiere: Torn Shore – ‘Set to Fail’

Polish hardcore outfit Torn Shore are intense, following in the chaotic footsteps of acts like Converge and Every Time I Die. Their new album, Reduced, is an exercise in unrestrained vocals, shrieking guitars…

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Full Album Stream: Moonlight Prophecy – “Vanquished”

Moonlight Prophecy are a young band, forming in March, but the collective shows the potential to be highly prolific. After releasing their Eternal Oblivion EP in April, Moonlight Prophecy have returned already with…

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Full Album Stream: Impureza – “La Caída De Tonatiuh”

French death metal legion Impureza have developed a unique style that takes influence from Spanish flamenco music as it does from death metal. Combining flamenco guitars with their dizzying technical death metal…

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Full Album Stream and Interview: Desolate Shrine’s “Deliverance from the Godless Void”

Last week we premiered Deliverance of the Godless Void, the abyssal new release from Finnish death masters Desolate Shrine. Since it’s really fuckin’ good, we’re posting it twice, this time…

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WATCH: VA House of Delegates Winner Danica Roem Thanks Metalheads in Victory Speech

It was a pretty groundbreaking election day in Virginia yesterday when the State elected Danica Roem, the first openly transgender legislator to serve in the Virginia House of Delegates. Roem is also…

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Full Album Stream: Nekrasov – “The Mirror Void”

Highly-prolific one-man black metal outfit Nekrasov are releasing their eighth album, The Mirror Void, through Prosthetic Records this Friday. A combination of power electronics, noise and black metal, The Mirror Void is equal parts dissonant…

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Track Premiere: Beastiality – ‘Witchblood’

Beginning with their 2013 demo tape, Ancient Bell Chimes, Beastiality have been snapping necks in the Swedish underground with a particularly violent and black-fanged breed of death-thrash. In sound, aesthetic…

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Full Album Stream: Jupiterian – “Terraforming”

Brazilian sludge purveyors Jupiterian dwell in the dissonant, sludgy corner of doom metal. Their new LP, Terraforming, leans on a dense atmosphere to propel six songs across nearly 40 crushing minutes, letting melodies…

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Track Premiere: The Obsessed – ‘Tombstone Highway’

Legendary doom rockers The Obsessed will reissue their 1990 debut album, previously out-of-print. The reissue follows The Obsessed’s full-blown reunion in 2016, which included a new album, called Sacred. Both Sacred and the self-titled album reissue…

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Live Review: Days of Darkness, Part 1 (Saturday, October 28 @ Rams Head Live in Baltimore)

As soon as the Days of Darkness festival was announced, I started drooling.  Longtime favorites like Neurosis, Warning and Dälek were listed.  Recent infatuations like Crypt Sermon, Ruby the Hatchet…

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